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Israel threatening Iran with ŽnukesŽ
2009-05-28
[Iran Press TV Latest] As Israel remains adamant on blemishing the prospects of Iran-US dialogue and coaxing the White House into a war, Israel's military Chief of Staff says the regime is ready to use all options against Iran.
And this Iranian press service clearly is not at all pleased about that.
Israel, the possessor of the sole nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, has long strived to portray Iran as a regime hell-bent on starting a nuclear war through the pursuit of its nuclear program.
Possibly because the Iranian regime is indeed so bent.
The UN nuclear watchdog says Iran has not opted against international law while conducting the program, which Iran says has civilian purposes.

"It is my job as army chief to prepare all the options, and that is what we're doing," Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, Israel's military Chief of Staff, said.

His remarks come as Iran and the US, which have not had diplomatic ties for nearly three decades, are moving to consider a possible rapprochement. Such reconciliation, however, has rubbed Tel Aviv the wrong way.

Israel, which claims to see Iran as an "existential threat", considers possible friendly ties between Tehran and Washington a major blow to its interests. "The dialogue between the US and Iran is unlikely to succeed, but this is the preferred course for us too," said Lt. Gen. Ashkenazi. "Iran continues with its plans. The existence of nuclear weapons in Iran's hands could destabilize the entire Middle East."

The Israeli general added that the army would take "every possible measure" when it has to deal with Iran.

The remarks come amid doubts raised by Western experts that the Israeli Air Force does not possess the necessary power to bomb the Iranian program out of existence. In return, Israeli defense experts claim that a nuclear strike might get the job done. According to a report by the Sunday Times, Israeli air force squadrons have trained to blow up Iranian nuclear facilities using low-yield nuclear "bunker-busters."
Even I know that the bunker busters are conventional, not nuclear. Although perhaps that's just the American model. It could be that Israel developed such nuclear weapons without remembering to inform me.
Ashkenazi's warning against Iran came as the hawkish Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, publicizes that lifting Iran's alleged "nuclear threat" is his government's mission.

In an address to the right-wing Likud party, Netanyahu said if Israel does not remove the Iranian threat, no one will. Citing Iran as a danger he said, "My job is first and foremost to ensure the future of the state of Israel ... the leadership's job is to eliminate the danger. Who will eliminate it? It is us or no one."
Posted by:Fred

#4  Obama's America already said to the Israelis we do not care about your lives

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."*
-- John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address

* Offer may be subject to conditions, exclusions, and disclaimers and in no way, represents the current views of the Democratic Party. Not valid outside the continental United States.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-05-28 20:50  

#3  Obama's America already said to the Israelis we do not care about your lives. So the only entity to protect them is the Israeli Government.
And the time to act is NOW!
Posted by: Ana   2009-05-28 10:21  

#2  I still think the best tack for the Israelis is a plausible deniability radiation attack in Iran. People in a city near a major nuclear site start dropping dead from radiation poisoning, suffering severe skin burns, that sort of thing. Useless for the Iranian government to deny it is them.

A few thousand lives could save hundreds of thousands of lives. The purpose is to teach the Iranian people that what they want will not give them their desires, but it will destroy them.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-05-28 00:55  

#1  Nutjob, may you live in interesting times.
Posted by: 3dc   2009-05-28 00:22  

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